Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

This generation might be the last to die

21 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube video ("This generation might be the last to die") in which the speaker warns that the US is approaching dangerous debt-to-GDP levels (quotes US at 122%), invokes the Thucydides Trap between the US and China as a risk of major conflict, and speculates that Bitcoin and AI might provide a route out but expects a brutal transition period of roughly 10–15 years.

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Every country that has ever been over 130% debt to GDP for more than I think it's 18 months, has ended up in revolution or civil war, and the US is at 122% and climbing. So that worries me a lot more. For anybody that knows Thucydides Trap, we are headed for that. When you have a declining superpower, the US Going up against a rising superpower, China, you enter in something called Thucydides Trap. And the two people in that transference, they just cannot bring themselves to do it. And so they end up fighting. Is there a world that's possible where it drops through Bitcoin and AI and through letting go of greed? If AI can race us past the, like, economic system that we have now, it might do something. But I really do think that the transition period, which is going to be something like 10 to 15 years, is going to be so brutal.